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Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data…

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Curious story: a combination of the Streisand Effect, and a conviction that he knows the law better than the judge and coroner that is worthy of Enoch Burke. #mastodaoine

Son of JP McManus files new appeal to quash coroner’s cocaine verdict on wife’s death
Emma McManus died at Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados following a party in December 2020

"A lot of analysts have indicated that oil is what is seen here, but that Trump has made this strike to prevent Venezuelan oil exports being made in other currencies (than $$)."
"Son muchos los analistas que señalan que el petróleo es lo que se ve, pero que Trump ha dado este golpe en la mesa para evitar que las exportaciones de barriles venezolanos acaben comercišndose en otras monedas."
No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China...

No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China, tras el golpe de Estado de Trump en Venezuela
Estados Unidos no puede permitir que el comercio mundial de crudo deje de hacerse en petrodólares o su hegemonía se pondría en peligro, por lo que necesita acabar con la influencia China en países con reservas de crudo.

What’s key to understand in Venezuela is that the US did a coup and got the president Maduro out.
But the regime is still there. The VP took power. Chavismo is still in charge. The armed forces, paramilitary, everyone is still around. The opposition, that likely won the last election, is still not in charge.
It’s really unusual. And shows the US, as usual with Trump, might not have much of a plan.
Good article on the new president Delcy Rodríguez

USA tar Venezuelas president. "SOON" postar närstående till Vita huset om Grönland. Tre imperier. En ordning som faller. Europa manar till återhållsamhet. Det räcker inte. Nu är tiden att agera.
https://carlheath.se/den-starkes-ratt-berattel…

I can understand why it works for dead-tree media—the instantiation costs are much higher—but it’s always struck me as a particularly stupid business model online: “If you don’t pay us, then we’ll deny ourselves the advertising revenue you’d otherwise make us.”
And it’s not as if most paywalls are difficult to bypass anyway. https://

Besides the illegality and cruelty, China and Russia will probably enjoy how the US is destroying morale and credibility of it's military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/poli

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to ...